Mid-atlantic Fisheries Council Meeting In Hampton To Discuss Plan On Bluefish

July 16, 1989|By JAY MUNDY Staff Writer

The Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council will hold a public hearing July 27 at Hampton's Radisson Hotel, to discuss its Bluefish Management Plan. The plan calls for a 10-fish or less limit on recreational fishermen. The hearing is at 7 p.m. and is free.

COBIA TALK SCHEDULED

Don Kohlman, past regional winner of the Stren Long Distance Casting Tournament, will speak on cobia at the July 18 meeting of the Peninsula Saltwater Sportsmens Association. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Plumber's Hall on Warwick Blvd. opposite the WMCA. The public is invited.

DUCK HABITAT POOR

Despite an increase in winter snow and spring rain, early waterfowl surveys indicate habitat for ducks remain poor across most of the prairie pothole country of Canada. The area was so large it offsets whatever gain the breeding waterfowl has made, and the duck population for this year isn't expected to be good. The decline in waterfowl populations has been tied to drought conditions during most of the 1980s. Now the situation has been compounded by reverse conditions and that there has been little change in regional agriculture practices. This has prompted the government to consider changing this fall's regulations very little, if at all.

STAMP TO BE ISSUED

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries will issue a commemorative stamp for the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Virginia Big Game Contest, scheduled for Bruton High School in Williamsburg Sept. 22-23. The stamp will feature the famous Surry County buck bagged in 1936 by J. Thomas Barclay of Newport News. Barclay's deer won the first contest ever held in Virginia, Sept. 23, 1940. The original oil painting of the stamp is being painted by Barclay Sheaks of Newport News. The stamp is scheduled to go on sale Jan. 1, 1990.